Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-04-01
TERRITORIAL ITEMS.

The Territorial Institute will be
held at Vancouver on the 9th of June
Colfax city property is assessed at
$545, 900, on a basis of half its cash
value.
A Congregational church is to be
erected at Mountain View, Whatcom
county, shortly.
The LaConner Mail wants a stock
company organized to bring in water
from the Skagit or Samish river.
Seventeen cents pound for $4,000
pounds of White river 1887 hops is
what Mr.. J. Pincus paid Mr.. D. Null
len last week.
Washington Territory grows more
Irish potatoes than any other Terri
tory or State in the Union. The aver
age is 152 bushels.
The ladies who were summoned to
serve as jurors at the late term of
court at Whatcom, were excused, but
received their per diem pay and mile
age.
On the Sound, work oxen have ma
terially advanced in price lately, and
first-class cattle bring $500 per yoke.
The opening up of so many logging
camps accounts for this.
The City Council of Walla Walla re-
Gently passed an ordinance, contract
ing with a private water company to
supply the city with water for twenty
five years at 81 500 per year.
Col. M. A. Thomas, of Baltimore,
United States Indian Inspector, on
duty along Puget Sound the past two
months, estimates the number OF In
dams in Western Washington at 4, 500.
The snowfall in the Cascade noun
tains is greater than it has been for
five years. High water in the Column
bia may be expected, and good crops
in Eastern Washington may be antici-
pated.
The Fourth Annual Session of the
Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of
Washington Territory, will convene in
the city of Vancouver, Tuesday, May
II, 1857. Twenty-Five lodges will be
represented.
Extensive preparations are being
made by the loggers of the Stillaguam-
ish river to do an unusual good sum-
mers work. The jams that were made
by the last two freshets are almost
wholly removed.
Mr.. Powell states that the Puget
Sound colony have purchased tract
of land at Port Angeles and intend To-
eating ON the straits. 1t is understood
that Edwin B. Mastick has sold the
colony his wharf property at that
place.
Rev. c. c. Otis, of Seattle, has just
received from the East three boxes of
books for the Puget Sound Academy,
at Coupeville on WILDLY island. With
other books promised, the academy
will have . library of nearly 1000 vol
umes to start with.
Tacoma NeWs: The coal miners
working at Cedar mountain struck
few days ago on account of several of
their number having been discharged.
Mr.. Coleman, the manager, says that
the mine will be kept running not
withstanding the strike.
A petition, which had been generally
signed by shipowners and masters of
vessels of Puget Sound, (and geodetic
survey0 asking for coast survey from
Gray's Harbor, to Cape Flattery, show
ing the different rocks, reefs and dam
gerous places along the coast.
Last week, while at work in the
mines, at Newcastle, Charles johnson
attempted to move loaded car by
placing his back against it and shov-
ing with all his strength. In making
this effort, Mr.. johnson ruptured a
blood vessel, from which he soon after
wards died.
The shareholders of the Chehalis
Valley Academy elected officers and
trustees at their recent meeting. Fol-
are the officers elected: President. T.
d. Scoheld; Secretary, George Nehf;
Treasurer, c. N. Byles; Trustees, J. r.
Thompson, d. H. Mullen, N. B. Cole
M. z. Goodell, A. K. Bush.
In August 1888, a man named Au-
gust Picker was murdered on the Cow
litz river. On the 7th of last month
the grand jury of Pierce county in
dicted Eugene Duvaul and Robert
Froudale for the murder. 1t is said
the evidence against them is very
strong. Both are under arrest.
Mr.. Charles B. Wright, of Philadel-
phia, has made arrangements to leave
that city for Tacoma about the latter
part of May. He will be accompanied
by his daughter Annie and one or two
of her lady friends. The two latter
will take the steamer Olympian for
Alaska, and during their absence Mr..
Wright will remain in Tacoma.
Many of the hop farmers in the
Puyallup valley state that their sea-
sons work is being much delayed on
account of the water in the hop fields.
Last year At this time, many of the
hop poles had been set and the vines